I have an old Windows 98 box that I still use Eudora on for email and would like to move that (email handling) to one of my newer laptops. I have been looking for a replacement for a couple of months now and feel kind of stuck. The one feature that I am the most interested in is the way Eudora put all the attachments into a separate folder. I have found it very handy to be able to navigate to Qualcom/Eudora/Attach and manipulate my attachments without starting Eudora, or to send it to someone else without also sending all the other information that normally goes when forwarding an email. I have tried Kmail and Eudora OSE but the both store the attachments in the original email. Reading reviews is not that helpful for this because they all focus on the interface and other features. From what I understand Eudora used the mbox method of storing emails, would other clients using that method be more likely to store the attachments in their own folder or does that not follow? Email clients I have read about and sound interesting are: (in no particular order) Slypheed, Claws, Evolution and Zimbra I would also be willing to try a client that runs in the console. If anyone has experience with these and can let me know if they do what I would I would appreciate it. I hope this isn't getting too long but maybe this will help clarify why this is important to me a little. When I was using Outlook Express it lost the .pst file somehow and I spent quite a bit of time recovering from it. I know that if Eudora somehow lost it's mbox file at least my attachments would be safe.
Thanks for any replies and if this is a lost cause what would be a good email client for me to try?
I currently have Ubuntu 10.04 (yea I know but I like Gnome 2 so much better than Unity), Debian Squeeze, Elive Topaz and Kubuntu that have access to the internet.

I've recently been using Claws-Mail (Claws is based on Sylpheed and is sort of like Sypheed testing, though that's not the most accurate analogy). It's quite a nice program.

It seems to store its attachments in the ~/.claws-mail/mimetemp directory, at least once they have been opened.

I don't know whether that's persistent if you close the application, though. I rather suspect that it's not, as that directory did not include as many files as would have expected it the files were persistent.

If you do try Claws, I would recommend that you get the GTKHTML2 HTML Viewer plugin. By default, Claws does not do HTML.

I remember using Eudora. It was the bees knees back then, and Pegasus was the cat's meow.

Thanks for taking the time to read and respond to my question. Based on your comments it seems like Claws-Mail isn't going to do what I had hoped. It's kind of interesting (and dissapointing) that in spite of many people thinking Eudora was a great email client that no one has kept it, or something like it, alive. I have never heard a negative comment from a Eudora user but it seems all the current email clients want to be like Outlook (which I never liked, and I think others would agree). I think I am going to wait a while longer and see if anyone else has a suggestion before I give up my search. Thanks again for your input.

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudora_OSE
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Eudora_OSE


That statement says more about your current knowledge of MUA's rather than history / diversity IMHO ;-p


Asserting you use POP3(S), see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Attachments_(Thunderbird) wrt the Attachment Extractor extension (if you favor TB) or if you want to remain MUA-agnostic the technical part wrt mboxrd format (as in potential usage of CLI tools like procmail, formail and other MIME-recognizing utilities, probably best with a cron job or something Inotify watch-based).

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Yea, I forgot to mention I have tried Eudora OSE. It is very impressive, especially the setup, would have been so easy it was mind boggling. I say "would have" because my ISP moved their email to Google servers with IMAP but left an old POP server hanging on the 'net somewhere that steered Eudora OSE wrong. When I made the statement about keeping Eudora around I was referring to the old edition. Somewhere back in the day, around version 6 or 7 I think, it got switched to be based on Thunderbird (if I remember correctly).

Actually, my statement about email clients all wanting to be like Outlook is not based on history or even actual usage, it is based on comments on the web pages and reviews where it seems Outlook is used as a standard measure or something. Seems I see a lot of comments like, "... has calendar functions built in like Outlook..." or something to that effect. when I made the post I was thinking it was the goal to be just like Outlook but upon further reflection maybe those comments are referring to a common standard since most new Linux users (like me) don't have experience using most of the email clients available.

I followed the link you sent me and read the parts of the article that looked relevant and understand now why most (I guess I should say all) email clients don't store the attachement in a seperate folder. I guess I am just going to have to suck it up and accept that there aren't any that will still do what I wanted. My favorite DE is Gnome 2 and it looks like it my follow the same path, I am staying hopeful that there will be something to take its place as my favorite.

Thanks for responding and taking the time to educate me a little. I wish I would have found that information when I was spending a lot of time researching this, better late than never, as they say.

PS Sorry it takes me so long to respond, I don't have interenet at home =:-o (I know, what a weerdo) and have been very busy with other projects lately.